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  1. Adolf Heilberg: Pro Memoria

    This collection comprises the personal account of the experiences of the distinguished German Jewish lawyer, Adolf Heilberg, from the time he was first persecuted by the Nazis in March 1933.

  2. Adolf Hitler cigarette card

    1 cigarette card, image of Adolf Hitler inspecting quarters of German soldier

  3. Adolf Hitler election speech in Eberswalde

    A crowd assembled to hear Adolf Hitler speak. They salute and cheer. Hitler stands at a flag and garland-draped podium, shot from below. Cameramen can be seen occasionally in the lower right of the screen as they film and/or photograph the speech. Occasional shots of the crowds and SA men. Hitler finishes his speech and descends from the podium. SA men hold back the crowds as Hitler's motorcade passes through them. Music plays, ending with "Deutschland ueber Alles." Shots of an orchestra playing the song while the crowd watches and salutes. Although the film is titled "Reichskanzler Adolf H...

  6. Adolf Hitler visiting the Bayreuth Festival in 1933

    Hitler, Festival, SS Attendants, policeman, visitors, girl, cherry tree

  7. Adolf Hitler's political and private testaments

    Contains photograph copies of documents relating to Adolf Hitler's final thoughts before suicide, his denial of guilt as cause of World War II, his ascribing the entire tragedy to international Jewry, his removal of Göring and Himmler from their offices for disloyalty in negotiating with the enemy without his consent, his choice of Admiral Dönitz and a slate of cabinet members to carry on the struggle, and his marriage to Eva Braun. Included is a note from Martin Bormann to Admiral Dönitz, which served as a cover letter to Hitler's political testament.

  8. Adolf Hitler, filmed by his pilot Hans Baur (partly in color)

    10:00:00 View from a flying plane on wing and propeller, flight over clouds 10:00:27 Inside the cabin: Goebbels reads, Brückner sleeps, Schaub behind Hitler, Hitler reads in the "Völkische Beobachter". 10:01:05 Color: Hitler on an airfield. Cannon. Hitler eats standing in the midst of officers, 10:01:38 Hitler gets on the car, the car is surrounded by members of the Luftwaffe, all of them raise their arms to greet the Germans, several vehicles set off. 10:01:51 Hitler with escort (including Wilhelm Keitel and Julius Schaub) holds on to his cap and welcomes Luftwaffe officers.

  9. Adolf Hitler-Strasse street sign

    Adolf Hiltler-Strasse sign removed and sent by Morris Sol Legum to his family, circa 1939-1945, Karlsruhe, Germany.

  10. Adolf Hitler-Strasse street sign acquired by a US soldier

    Adolf Hitler-Strasse street sign, taken by Harmon R. Stone, a US soldier, during the Allied occupation of Germany in May 1945.

  11. Adolf J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adolf J., who was born in 1924 in Germany. He describes his family's move to Belgium; poverty in Antwerp until the late 1920s, then affluence; involvement in leftist organizations; antisemitic incidents in school; his family's fleeing to Dunkerque to escape the German invasion; their return to Belgium; joining the Resistance; hiding in Charleroi; his father's arrest; joining the Resistance in Brussels; moving to Tournai; arrest as a Resistant (he had false papers) in April 1944; and confessing to be Jewish, thinking it would help him. Mr. J. recalls transfer to Maline...

  12. Adolf M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adolf M., who was born in Berlin in 1921 to a Jewish father and a Christian mother who had converted to Judaism. He recalls cordial relations with both his parents' families; minimal religious observances at home; his bar mitzvah; anti-Jewish harassment of his father's business; his father's reluctance to emigrate (he had served in World War I) despite his mother's desire to leave; apprenticeship to a textile merchant in 1935; his father's death in 1936; easing of restrictions during the Olympics; his sister's emigration to England in 1939; military draft, then reject...

  13. Adolf Neumann and Margot Cahn: diaries

    This collection contains the diaries of Margot Cahn (1928-1949) (1674/1-23) and Dr Adolf Neumann (1933-1938) (1674/24-29), who met in 1933 documenting their daily lives, meetings and social events in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, until the November pogroms in 1938. Shortly after this event they both emigrated to different countries, Margot to England and Adolf to Scandinavia. Margot Cahn's life in London can be traced through her diaries until 1949. The diaries include poetry and contain memorabilia such as photographs, press cuttings, programmes as well as pressed flowers and leaves.

  14. Adolf Peritz: letter

  15. Adolf S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adolf S., who was born in Galanta, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovkia) in 1919, one of seven children. He recalls attending public and religious schools; cordial relations with non-Jews; a sister's death from illness; working in the family bakery; his father's death in 1936; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of the bakery; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1939; two years slave labor in Hungary; transfer to the Russian front; traveling home from Belgorod after the Russians stopped the German offensive in 1943; ...

  16. Adolf Stone papers

    Consists of photocopies collected by Adolf Stone, originally from Germany, who emigrated to the United States and joined the military. Includes information about the establishment of the Central Jewish Information Office and copies related to a memorial service held on June 10, 1945, at the St. Ottilien displaced persons camp. Included in the documents related to the memorial service are a short narrative of the service itself, a copy of a speech by Dr. Z. Grinberg in which Dr. Grinberg described his Holocaust experiences and the program of a musical performance led by Michael Hofmekler.

  17. Adolf Wald: Bar Mitzwah album

    The album contains mostly letters, cards and telegrams congratulating the subject on reaching his Bar Mitzwah

  18. Adolph Blau family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Adolph Blau and his family in Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust and in Deggendorf displaced persons camp in the postwar period.

  19. Adolph Rosenthal correspondence

    Contains three letters, plus two enclosures, between U.S. Representative Herman P. Kopplemann (1st district, Connecticut) and Adolph Rosenthal, of East Hartford, Connecticut, from January-February 1937, concerning the efforts of Mr. Rosenthal to obtain visas that would enable family members in Germany to immigrate to the United States. Kopplemann advised Rosenthal to provide as much information about his personal finances and property as possible, and the correspondence chiefly concerns the type of information needed in order to make the affidavit as convincing as possible.

  20. Adolphe and Raechel Dikker collection

    The collection consists of a postcard and a pillowcase relating to the experiences of Adolphe and Raechel Dikker during World War II when Adolphe, a Dutch civilian, was imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp in Java.